[PATCH 1/2] Documentation: raise minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25.1
Nick Desaulniers
ndesaulniers at google.com
Wed Aug 31 07:23:03 AEST 2022
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:10 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Binutils 2.23 was released in 2012. Almost 10 years old.
>
> We already require GCC 5.1, which was released in 2015.
>
> Bump the binutils version to 2.25.1, which was also released in 2015.
>
> Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers at google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
> ---
>
> Documentation/process/changes.rst | 4 ++--
This document has also been translated into Italian. Let's keep them in sync?
Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/changes.rst
Either way.
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers at google.com>
grepping for binutils shows lots of potentially stale references to
even older versions of binutils. There may be more cleanups lurking
than just the ppc ld-ifversion check.
> scripts/min-tool-version.sh | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> index 19c286c23786..5fb6a60677ef 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ GNU C 5.1 gcc --version
> Clang/LLVM (optional) 11.0.0 clang --version
> GNU make 3.81 make --version
> bash 4.2 bash --version
> -binutils 2.23 ld -v
> +binutils 2.25.1 ld -v
> flex 2.5.35 flex --version
> bison 2.0 bison --version
> pahole 1.16 pahole --version
> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Bash 4.2 or newer is needed.
> Binutils
> --------
>
> -Binutils 2.23 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
> +Binutils 2.25.1 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
>
> pkg-config
> ----------
> diff --git a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
> index 250925aab101..8b1edd1f7281 100755
> --- a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
> +++ b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ fi
>
> case "$1" in
> binutils)
> - echo 2.23.0
> + echo 2.25.1
> ;;
> gcc)
> echo 5.1.0
> --
> 2.34.1
>
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
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